, 1887-02-27
MISSIONS BEGINNING.
THE STEPPING STONE TO THE
SINGERS FUTURE CAREER.

a Young Vioilnist Accompanying Her
i..r Foundation OF the Great Primn
Donna's Fortune.
In n little hut among tall pines OH the rs
TITO Of Count Hamilton, in Wexio, in
/! Ne,,en, the hut, consisting of two rooms,
~hrionging to a poor forester. on Aug. 20, in the
year 1913, was born q little tow headed girl,
lie youngest OF seven children, who never
l,o.c unless especially questioned, but con
tiaunlly sang, trying to initiate the birds or
the murmuring OF the waters-in fact, obey
ing an inner impulse to initiate the great
models of nature, never having heard any
thing else. The Sjoabohl (hamlet) OF Snugge,
to which tho part of the forest belonged
whore sho had first seen the light OF day, was
Il few miles distant from Wexio, and tho
highest ambition OF the poor children WINS to
b. able to get to the fair of Wexio and earn IA
few pence somehow in that. great town OF
some 800 inhabitants. In order to reach
that glorious result, little Christine, WHIT Ind
taught herself to play on a small fiddle which
belonged to her elder brother, and which You
can $50 any day you pleasein the magnificent
mansion she has built for herself in South
Kensiugton, entered into partnership with
her bapther, who was already her inferior as
n violinist, and they started ont together for
the celebrated Wexio.
At A VILLAGE FAIR
On they went, per pedes apostolorum, unit.
they reached, on their way, Ljung-by by
means villnge), where thore was held a small
fair, and where the young ~violinist accom-.
panied her own voice In the few Swedish
national songs she then had heard and rc-
tanned In her precocious memory. With
great pride sho relates that this, her first open
air-concert, brought her the treasure Of
tbreepepce- half- penny, forewarning her VI
tho untold wealth which awaited the children
at the town fair. Thither, then, they re-
paired with all the codrage that saeesss-
glory and money can give, and arrived a little
tired, but hopeful, at tho fair. There WA
suddenly a big audience, who wondered If
the violin played Christine or Christine the
violin. When the admiring crowd nssem-
bled 1t attracted the attention OF Mr. Tor
nerhjeim, the provincial judge, who tried to
find out, as every one OF us would, what was
tho matter. Well, fortunately for the great
singer, the judge, a man over six feet high,
looked over the shoulders of the people at the
little girl who formed the center of attrac-
ton, and then he saw and heard, over and
above the scraping of the little fiddle, what
he thought the s"eetest uhu us euenaitihb
timbre Of voice he had ever heard before.
highly educated man, and accustomed To
read in the p~hysiognomy OF the people who
were brought before him their character and
probable capabilities, he spoke first to the
boy. then to the littlo girl, and there and then
laid the foundation OF the great prima donna's
fortune by the present Of untold wealthIa
sixpence. Christine, already frightened with
the responsibility OF carrying her LJung-by
funds, suddenly grown rich beyond her Ell
pectations, with great frmness insisted on
their Immediate return to the only place
where so much money could safely he IN
vested or deposited-thelr fathers hut.
THE TOILET DEJouR
You eau SEQ in one OF Christine's great
salons the little skirt. which did not descend
10 tho ankle. the toilet dejour of her first con.
cert. minus the least bit of shoe. op stock.
incs: and the cherished poftraK bon,
utysans u
| rich gold pne
series 90,
hrr nongn 49,
~ r.S<ts 50 rich us she became
,.tn.d with her first success In pubIic to her
father, who saw. real and alive, ninc and one
iiall pence. the product OF two concerts, In
Ills daughters little hand. Strange a. it may
appear, the great success and the great nnnn.
ciai result remained for IA few days without
any further consequences: when, Just rs IA
second artistic journey was contemplated, the
aforementioned Judge, who naturally had
had some difficulty in unearthing the where